Howdy! I am an Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services working on Quick Suite. My work focuses on building agents that interact with structured data such as dashboards, datasets, and SQL databases.

I obtained my PhD in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University, under the joint guidance of Dr. Srinivas Shakkottai and Dr. Dileep Kalathil. During my time there, I was a part of the LENS Lab within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

My research interests are in the areas of reinforcement learning and game theory. I have worked on developing reinforcement learning algorithms for various applications such as LLM fine-tuning, robotics, and wireless networks. More recently, my work has focused on building reasoning models, retrievers, and embedding models for natural language to SQL tasks.

Previously, I was at Hewlett Packard Labs, where I primarily worked on developing automated evaluation methods for LLMs. During my PhD, I had the great opportunity to intern at the Real World Reinforcement Learning Group at Microsoft Research, as well as Nokia Bell Labs.

I obtained my Bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from PES Institute of Technology (now PES University), where I was advised by Dr. Vamsi Krishna Tumuluru.